This is the only documentary on the DVD of The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas. It consists of interviews with author, actors and crew,
behind-the-scenes footage, bits from a real propaganda film(that they
re-created portions of), clips from the movie itself and production
stills. Note that this making-of spoils the ending and other aspects of
the feature itself. Unfortunately, much of the first fourth of it is
pure love-fest for the novel and the adaptation(need a drinking game?
Take a shot every time someone says that they cried when reading the
book or the script). After that, it moves to them talking about their
hard work to ensure accuracy(they succeeded) and a sort of analysis of
it, as well as some talking about how it pays a ton of respect to the
source material. We get the irritating dancing around the obvious
because there is such a fear of admitting that Nazis were people, and
that it wasn't some demon that came up from beneath the Earth and did
this; with that said, they do also get to say things that bring forth
the vital point that they were human beings. This has a running time of
just under 20 minutes, and it is concise. The editing is great. There
is a little disturbing content in this. I recommend this to anyone
interested in the subject. 7/10

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